motion designer for advertising services

Founders Makers is an independent creative agency that helps people, brands, and organisations make an impact in their industries through branding, campaigns, content, and motion work.

• Develop distinctive brand identities and visual systems across identity, digital, social, and campaign platforms;
• Design and produce campaign assets across channels, from hero creative to social and content formats;
• Bring brands to life through animation, video, and motion-led assets;
• Create motion-led brand systems that define how visual identities move, transition, and behave across touchpoints;
• Produce static, motion, and short-form video content native to each platform;
• Turn early thinking into scamps, brand worlds, treatments, content ideas, and presentations;
• Contribute to pitches and new business by developing ideas and creative routes at pace;
• Collaborate with strategists, creatives, and client partners from concept through final delivery;
• Find creative ways to deliver ambitious work within real-world budgets and timelines;
• Present work to internal teams and clients where appropriate;
• Monitor culture, technology, AI, and new ways of making work, including AI-assisted design and motion workflows;
• Help raise the creative standard and guide other team members as the studio grows.

• Strong agency or studio experience at a senior level;
• Portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, strong ideas, and exceptional motion work;
• Strong visual eye and deep understanding of brand systems, typography, layout, and visual storytelling;
• Ability to work across platforms and disciplines;
• Ability to work in a smaller independent agency;
• Ambitious approach to the work and the agency;
• Strong point of view without ego;
• Ability to balance attention to detail with delivering ideas effectively;
• Deep hands-on motion skills;
• Proficiency with After Effects, Adobe Creative Suite, and Figma;
• Ability to present and sell creative thinking to clients;
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, changing priorities, and tight turnarounds;
• Proactive, collaborative, and low-ego approach.

• Training budgets for all team members;
• 20 Days of holiday, plus public holidays, birthday, and a two-week break over New Year;
• Work from anywhere for up to 20 days each year;
• Working hours are 9am–6pm.